capability exist?
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electronic device, simply say, "It's the power suppply."
You will be correct about 99% of the time, and since you came up
with the right answer
before you even looked, you'll be considered to be either psychic
or a bloody genius. ;-)
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e new
hardware might be useful to accelerate network packet processing --
perhaps especially in FreeBSD, whose unique Netgraph drivers are
already set up to handle packets in a similar fashion.
Could this be fodder for a future FreeBSD Foundation-sponsored coding effort?
--Brett
It'll never bring in my BSD systems or projects. Internet
monopolist Google is untrustworthy and a menace to privacy and security.
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At 04:25 AM 11/19/2013, Tony Sidaway wrote:
If you're using Google+, this community brings together all BSD systems and
BSD-relate
At 01:00 AM 11/10/2013, Genghis Khan wrote:
Typical Jewish behaviour.
I find the ABOVE to be offensive -- not the original post, which was amusing.
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content.
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At 01:58 PM 10/16/2013, Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
Hi FreeBSD
We have launched a new video venture, www.tomahawkworld.com. The
software release was done first to FreeBSD. Please give it a try.
The TomahawkWorld is based on the netTsunami protocol (a p2p-base
, and operating
systems. We may want to look this gift horse very carefully in the
mouth, or at least monitor very closely "contributions" of code
that might introduce backdoors or weaknesses.
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y. It sets a horrendous bad example and shows a
flagrant disregard
for security.
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At 02:55 AM 5/23/2013, Jayton Garnett wrote:
Does it really matter?
Yes. A lot. FreeBSD should not facilitate violations of privacy or
similar security risks.
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In my opinion, The FreeBSD Project should be on the side of
security, privacy, transparency, and good ethics. This means not
invoking corporate spyware scripts from its Web site.
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d good ethics. Just because it has received
contributions of labor from Google does not mean it should not sell out
to it.
Just my $0.02.
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into its Web site. If it
is desirable to gather statistics regarding the site, there are ways
to do it that do not compromise visitors' privacy or execute invasive
spyware on their machines.
Sincerely,
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x27;s work
because there are no licensing barriers between them.
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At 02:20 AM 12/5/2011, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Even better, colour it golden, and you can get the Harry Potter
constituency on-board too..
Or color it pink... and pigs will fly! ;-)
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act that FreeBSD is not
providing it is causing some to switch and others to become seriously unhappy.
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ROFL! This should be part of the official collection of artwork.
If we used this, all we'd need to worry about is offending the atheists. ;-)
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At 02:01 AM 12/4/2011, Alejandro Camuñez wrote:
I made a nice and "family-friendly" version. Here you have :P
http://
At 01:26 AM 11/30/2011, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>Ask the guest if it is not also true cow's have horns so that means that all
>cattle are Satan worshipers?
You're being rational. Alas, ignorant and/or superstitious people are not.
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Alas, these still have horns.
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s calling
him and going on about devils.
Attempts at misguided religious censorship notwithstanding, I don't
want to see one of my ISP's customers lose business. And I'd like
to keep a FreeBSD logo on our hotspot page. Is there artwork that
doesn't inclu
At 08:05 PM 9/25/2011, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
As you (Brett) should have known, the reason we did that was because
of the enormous upheaval that 5.x represented. And we knew in advance
that we'd have problems with 5.x as a result.
Yes; because I was developing products bas
rsion of the OS. The 4.x branch reached
4.11-RELEASE before it was shut down, and 5.x was nowhere near as
good. Wish they'd pick a branch (8-STABLE or 9-STABLE) and do this again.
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use of CPU cache.
The article claims dramatic performance improvements due to this
optimization. Anything like this in the works for FreeBSD?
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ns (among
other things) were more consistent. But as often happens, the
coders were too busy coding to take a step back and consider this.
In any case, I like the fact that I can hop back and forth between
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and the command line shell in MacOS
without having to rep
put their own stamp on Linux. (Just call it "Linux" in front of
Richard Stallman, and you won't hear the end of it. He'll yell,
"It's GNU/Linux. Gno-LINUX!")
Which is doubly ironic because every Linux distribution conta
aving inspected GPLed code. No flame wars, please.)
In any event, if I were to run a FreeBSD-based desktop system (as
opposed to servers and appliances, which is what I do with
FreeBSD), I'd want the GUI to be BSD-licensed or Apache-licen
e
artifacts. Analog isn't ideal, but it's a good fallback.
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an agenda which is intended to deprive programmers of a livelihood.
This is unethical.
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ng for the day when I can
build FreeBSD with a GPL-free toolchain and run without any GPLed
code anywhere on the box. (This day may be coming soon, by the way.
I hear through the grapevine that clang can build the FreeBSD
userland and may not be far from being able to build the -CURRENT kernel.)
At 02:50 AM 10/30/2009, Randi Harper wrote:
This bikeshed is old and tired. I don't want to paint it. I want to drown it
in lighter fluid and set it on fire.
I've never seen a bike shed. Unless perhaps it had a furry seat cover.
--B
be that "false"
is "true?" Aaargh!
No wonder I don't use short circuit operators much. When zero
equals one, it gets rather confusing.
It's also confusing that they are called "AND" and "OR" operators
(and look like the sh
ot;short circuit OR." It stops right away and
doesn't evaluate its second operand if the first operand is 1 (or
anything nonzero). Why? Because if one operand of an OR operation
is nonzero, the result can never be 0.
How could this error have persisted in the FreeBSD documentation for so
accessible in simple
GUI-based end user firewalls like m0n0wall or pfsense, but are all
do-able on the ruleset level using IPFW2.) Are there provisions for
this? The docs are a bit lean so far, so it is hard to tell.
--Brett Glass
At 11:40 PM 7/5/2009, Gerard van Essen wrote:
Olivier Cochard-
to find it far more
inflammatory to talk about how to build a bike shed. ;-)
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rd to the day when I can build FreeBSD with a
completely BSD-licensed toolchain.
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At 06:36 PM 5/20/2009, Chuck Robey wrote:
I expect that one major fallout of this is going to be, a number of companies
waking up and realizing that they maybe should quit waiting for the other shoe
to d
lso be useful to add error recovery in situations where
read-only media (e.g. a CD) is ejected.
--Brett
At 08:54 AM 11/12/2008, Deb Goodkin wrote:
Dear FreeBSD Community,
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce one of the projects from
the accepted project proposals!
The project is to make
uname -smr command,
which returns their OSname, OSversion, and arch on stdout.
Or if you're a software pirate, or it's September 19th, you can
always post the output of
uname -arrrr
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cting data on Internet users for many years. Why should we
expect anything different from them just because they have merged
with Google -- especially since Google itself harvests users'
personal data from their Gmail users' e-mail?
At 03:14 PM 5/20/2008, David Kelly wrote:
>Finally!
>Have been waiting for someone to find a FreeBSD-compatible sliderule!
Slipsticks are especially good for calculating release schedules. ;-)
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his transaction.
This administration will do whatever a big business wants, so it is highly
unlikely to block ANY merger or acquisition, no matter how detrimental.
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t, threatened to withdraw support from some of these
developers unless the license was switched to the GPL, thus forcing their
hands.
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It's worth noting that the WINE project, not long ago, abandoned
the BSD license for the GPL despite urging from many sources to keep
the code open and free for use by developers. We've stopped using it
as a result.
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At 10:59 AM 12/6/2007, Tom Wickline wrote:
>Oh yea,
At 06:06 AM 7/9/2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>"Start FreeBSD 7.0 Release Process" does not mean "Release 7.0". We are
>on schedule.
This is good.
However, since we can't use a .0 release in production, we are very eager to
see a date posted for 6.3. H
ree as any wireless code is going to get.
Atmel's 802.11b chipsets use the Intersil Prism, by the way.
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27;t secure). A little bit of code in your favorite scripting
language will do it. And of course you can output to a graphing
package, though for me a simple histogram using asterisks has
sufficient precision in most cases.
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At 09:48 AM 12/5/2006, Benjamin Adams wrote:
>I'
Isn't it funny how quick the proponents of what the FSF calls
"Free" software (note the capital "F", which by itself is a sure
sign of propaganda or dogma) are to try to restrict its use?
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On 6/20/06, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
User manuals and how-tos don't generally get
copyright notices, because there is nothing
creative about it. Someone could write exactly
the same thing (just about), and you'd have
little claim to it because its just a procedural
description. Wh
On 6/19/06, Christopher Weldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Brett wrote:
> Obviously, you have never spent days trying out a relatively
> undocumented procedure, finally getting it right, and then decided to
> help others out by
On 6/19/06, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Its interesting that the same types of people who
whine incessently about things like open source
will get all worked up about a "copyright" on
some stupid how-to "article".
You know what they say; if its not worth money,
you might as well get
id NOT bother to tell me he was the owner of
it. All I knew is someone named Brett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
letting me know there was a problem. I immediately went to arbornet.org to
see where the original information was so I could find the originator's name
and emailed him back, here
I hope we can reach an agreement on this as soon as possible.
J'espère qu'on puisse trouver un accord dans les plus brefs délais.
On 6/18/06, David Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It appears the page at
http://www.houfug.org/help/install_freebsd.htm constitutes
a serious breach of copyright.
o limit the impact.
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At 11:18 AM 4/1/2006, Larry Shiller wrote:
Please note that the April 2006 Larry Shiller/ShillerMath tidbit sent
in the past 24 hours should have c
This is obviously an April Fool's Day joke, but come to think of it,
it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a 2.2.9-RELEASE, with all of the
major bugs and security holes fixed, for embedded systems. It'd
be possible to have a true "Pico" BSD
Why is this spam on the list?
Also, it's worth noting that the author gives the wrong answer to his
sample SAT question below. The only correct answer is 4 (D), not 5 (E).
I wouldn't pay $29.95 for a book from an author who couldn't give the
correct answer to his own sample proble
ory. On a classic IBM PC, the
BIOS always expects to find a block of RAM at B000: (monochrome adapter)
or B800: (color adapter) and gives one long and three short beeps
if it can't find it.
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boy you trained, gone he is. Twisted by the Dark Side, young
>Jobs has become.
There is another.
Seriously: in many folks' opinion, Jobs *was* the Dark Side and should
have done something like this years ago.
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At 06:12 PM 6/3/2005, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>C'mon, you can get supported ethernet cards for $20 or less.
It's a rackmount system. Only one PCI slot, and it's spoken for.
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>>
>>Maybe you're thinking of the nvnet driver.
>Yup. I am...
Any status on this driver? I have a client who is about to go to Linux
because he can't get the motherboard's NIC to work.
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At 05:16 AM 3/16/2005, Gert Cuykens wrote:
Actualy i dont want to read the manual of a woman i just want to talk
to a real one. Do a little interview of what its like be a woman :)
From what women have told me, it's like being a man, only a little
different. ;-)
--Brett
At 04:32 PM 3/15/2005, Gert Cuykens wrote:
>ok i will narrow the specification a bit, which of you ever
>encountered a woman that knows the difference between giving her your
>phone number or giving her a ip address ?
I married one. ;-)
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